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École Normale Supérieure
At the same time a French grande école and a university, the Ecole normale supérieure provides in Paris, at the heart of the Quartier latin, excellent training through research, leading to various teaching and research professions, and contributes to train through research the senior executives of public administrations as well as of French and European companies. The ENS also defines and applies scientific and technological research policies, from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.
Intellectual freedom, multidisciplinarity in humanities and sciences, individual attention to students, bountiful campus life, gathering students and professors from all disciplines, form the heart of the specificities of the Ecole normale supérieure. Since more than 2 centuries, the ENS prepares its students to the most various openings and the highest responsibilities, while being fully invested in the intellectual, scientific and cultural debates of its time – in particular through the multiplicity of the normaliens’ engagement.
Read moreAlfort National Veterinary School (EnVA)
The Alfort National Veterinary School (EnvA) has more than 250 years of history. Established since 1766 in Maisons-Alfort, it has been transformed over the centuries to train future veterinarians, carry out ambitious research actions and treat animals. EnvA is one of 12 public higher education establishments in agriculture, veterinary and forestry under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food .
Read moreNational veterinary school Toulouse
The National Veterinary School of Toulouse (ENVT) is one of the four French National Veterinary Schools and one of 12 public higher education establishments in the fields of agronomy, veterinary science and forestry under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
Research activities at the ENVT are carried out in 14 research/departmental or technological units, either within the school itself or in joint research units (UMR) in partnership with INRAE, INSERM, UT3 Paul Sabatier, CNRS and CIRAD.
Read moreÉcole Polytechnique
As a higher education establishment, École Polytechnique, also known as l’X, naturally seeks to share the most up-to-date knowledge to benefit its students, selected based on the criteria of excellence for which it is renowned.
However, École Polytechnique also creates knowledge, for its professors are both teachers and researchers. It hosts around twenty laboratories, which are closely connected to French national research institutions and committed to prestigious international collaboration. The aim of these laboratories is to achieve results in the form of intellectual property rights and publications in leading journals in both fundamental and applied research.
École Polytechnique’s credo is to be multidisciplinary both in its teaching and research. Structured around ten scientific disciplines, including humanities and social sciences, it focuses its research on eight themes that involve collaboration between the laboratories. Such a model stems from the observation that fruitful innovations accepted by society are born from the confrontation and cooperation of disciplines, including philosophy.
Read moreÉcole des Ponts ParisTech
École des Ponts ParisTech, created in 1747 under the name École Royale des Ponts et Chaussées, is a higher education establishment that trains engineers to a high level of scientific, technical and general competency. Apart from civil engineering and spatial planning, historically the source of its prestige, the School develops high-quality programs and research associated with the energy transition.
Read moreÉcole Pratique des Hautes Études
The École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL (EPHE – PSL), established in the Sorbonne in 1868, is acknowledged as one of France’s ‘grands établissements’ where research is undertaken in Life and Earth Sciences, Historical and Philological Sciences, and Religious Sciences.
Located in the heart of Paris, PSL inspires dialog among and between all areas of knowledge, innovation, and creativity. Ranked among the world’s top 50 universities, it draws directly from research to train researchers, artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and managers who are aware of their social responsibility, both individual and collective.
The EPHE focuses on unique fields of knowledge. Lectures and other learning strategies, offered by over 260 faculty, provide an exceptional opportunity for immediate immersion into research as practiced in a myriad of fields including languages and religions of Pre-Islamic Central Asia, the major monotheistic faiths, Chinese archaeology, Hebrew palaeography, Greek dialectology and digital humanities in the sphere of Social Sciences and Humanities; coral reef biodiversity, neurosciences and cognitive science, cellular environment and regulation in the Life and Earth Sciences sector… as well as transdisciplinary issues that bridge these key areas of knowledge.
Remaining true to its initial mission, the EPHE continues to develop research skills through immersion in research practice and tailors its programs to today’s ever-changing global scientific landscape: its faculty members and its doctoral students are part of an intricate international network; many of its teams have contracts with the CNRS and other renowned organizations; it is part of PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres) University where it works hand-in-hand with other prestigious establishments; it is one of the founders of and is actively involved in the Campus Condorcet project – the Cité des Humanités et Sciences Sociales (Social Sciences and Humanities Campus), which is currently under construction in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.
Ever mindful of the societal challenges of the scientific issues that it studies, the EPHE comprises four institutes which provide courses and which also have a primary role as an observatory: the European Institute of Religious Sciences, the Pacific Coral Reef Institute and the Transdisciplinary Institute for the Study of Aging, ILARA, the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity.
Read moreEMLyon Business School
emlyon business school was founded in 1872 by the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is a private higher-education establishment recognized by the French State. It is one of the oldest business schools in Europe. emlyon is among the 1% of global business schools to be accredited by the three international accreditation systems: AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. As such, it merits its status as a global-ranking school of business and management.
The School hosts 8,900 students representing 121 nationalities in undergraduate and postgraduate programs, along with nearly 6,900 participants in executive education programs. The School counts seven campuses around the world: Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Paris, Casablanca, Shanghai, Bhubaneswar and Mumbai. It draws on a network of 190 international academic partners and leads a community of 35,700 alumni in 130 different countries.
emlyon’s distinctive academic signature early makers molds learning into a lifelong endeavor to have an impact on the world and offers a real alternative in its environment. It sees learning as not only a transfer of academic knowledge but also a “course of learning experiences” that equips students to forge a constant link between thought and action: “doing to learn, learning to do”.
Through these collective and individual learning experiences, emlyon has set out to train responsible managers capable of taking up the challenges of today and tomorrow. This general-interest calling lies at the heart of the school’s identity and will be written into its articles of association in July 2021 when it transitions to the status of a benefit corporation.
ENAC
ENAC is internationally recognized as the leading aeronautics and aviation university in Europe, providing a broad range of training, studies and research activities.
Our institution provides a comprehensive range of 28 higher education programs ranging from Bachelor to Master of Science, Aviation Advanced Master, Master of Business and Administration as well as Ph.D.s in the domains of aeronautics and aviation.
Since its creation in 1949, ENAC has provided professional training to civil aviation personnel such as Air Traffic Controllers, ATSEPs and technicians for Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA) or Air Navigation Service Providers from all over the world (e.g. China, Switzerland, EuroControl, Indonesia, Philippines, Brazil, Africa, Georgia, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia).
ENAC alumni work in aeronautical and aviation companies, in fields such as manufacturing (Airbus, ATR, Embraer, Safran, P&W, GE, Rockwell Collins, Thales, Indra), and airports, airlines, civil aviation authorities as well as air navigation providers across the globe.
ENAC is also known internationally for its training of ATPL and MPL pilots for airlines including Air France, Easyjet, Transavia, Sichuan Airline, China Eastern, Shanghai Airline, Lao Airline, Oman Air and Royal Air Maroc.
Innovative ENAC research laboratories work in cooperation with the best universities worldwide to provide a safer, more efficient and more sustainable air transport system.
Read moreENS de Lyon
The École Normale Supérieure de Lyon is an elite French public institution that trains professors, researchers, senior civil servants as well as business and political leaders. Students choose their courses and split their time between training and research in sciences and humanities. Built on the tradition of the ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, founded in 1880, the ENS de Lyon also focuses on educational research. It is a symbol of French Republican meritocracy and it remains committed today to disseminating knowledge to the widest audience and to promoting equal opportunity.
The ENS de Lyon is part of the Université de Lyon and supports quality research that has earned it a Fields medal (Cedric Villani, 2010) and many CNRS medals. It encourages interdisciplinary studies to foster a better understanding of complex contemporary issues.
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ENSSIB
ENSSIB is a public institution with a scientific, cultural and professional nature, in the form of a Grand établissement, created by decree n°92-25 on January 9 1992. ENSSIB is both a Grande école, aiming to train public libraries executives and librarians recruited through public service competitive exam, and a specialised university institution, issuing a national master’s degree and two ENSSIB diploma.
Read moreENSTA Bretagne
ENSTA Bretagne is a prestigious French engineering school with an established reputation in the maritime, defense and high-tech sectors. Its excellence is recognized in many fields including all aspects of the naval industry as well as defense equipment and technology, and including the aeronautics, aerospace, automotive, energy, digital and information technology and research sectors.
Read moreENSTA Paris
ENSTA Paris is a multidisciplinary engineering school that offers world-class education courses. It is part of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, a leading teachning and research institution in France and abroad which brings together five Schools or Grandes Ecoles.
Under the supervision of the Ministry of Armed Forces, ENSTA Paris delivers multidisciplinary training, which allows its graduates to work in numerous sectors of activity corresponding to its domains of excellence, such as the automotive, rail or naval industry, nuclear energy, renewable marine energies, robotics, financial mathematics, oceanography or the environment; sectors connected to the needs of large businesses.
The “École Nationale des Techniques avancées (National School of Advanced Techniques) Paris” is located in the south of Paris in Palaiseau, at the heart of a campus made up of numerous scientific establishments and institutions, in a pleasant setting with a multitude of green spaces.
Research is one of the School’s major missions. Half of it is carried out by the School’s teacher-researchers and the other half by researchers from CNRS, INSERM and the École Polytechnique working in the premises of ENSTA Paris. The School has six research units.
Read moreESPCI Paris
ESPCI Paris – PSL is a major institution of higher education (a French “Grande École d’ingénieurs”), an internationally renowned research center, and a fertile ground of innovation for industry.
Founded by the City of Paris in 1882, for over a century the School has attracted leading scientific innovators like Nobel Prize laureates Pierre and Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Georges Charpak, who continue to contribute to the institution’s international reputation.
The School’s culture of excellence remains as vibrant as ever. Fully 60% of graduates go on to complete a thesis and earn their PhD. The School’s teaching faculty and researchers are building tomorrow’s knowledge base, publishing an article a day in top international scientific journals ; inventing the industry of the future, filing for a patent every single week.
A model of excellence and an illustration of the “French exception”, ESPCI Paris is a component school of PSL University and a founding member of ParisTech, the Paris Institute of Science and Technology.
Read moreESSEC Business School
A pioneer of business-related learning since 1907, ESSEC’s mission is to respond to the challenges of the future. In an interconnected, technological, and uncertain world, where the tasks are increasingly complex, ESSEC offers a unique pedagogical approach. This approach is founded on the creation and dissemination of cutting-edge knowledge, a blend of academic learning and practical experience, and a multicultural openness and dialogue.
Read moreGrenoble École de Management
Grenoble École de Management (GEM) is a well-known business school on a national and international scale. GEM is also an large-scale laboratory, where 8.000 students and 500 employees spend every day learning, working to solve complex problems, and respond to business and society’s challenges.
Read moreHEC Paris
One of the world’s best business schools, HEC Paris is a leader in research and education in management sciences. It offers a unique portfolio of programs designed for a carefully selected student body.
Read moreICP (Catholic University of Paris)
Founded in 1875, the Catholic University of Paris (Institut Catholique de Paris – ICP) is the inheritor of the Medieval Liberal Arts Colleges and lies in the tradition of the Sorbonne, the oldest academic institution in France. ICP is renowned for its excellence in core academic fields such as Theology, Philosophy and Canon Law that serve as a basis for the development of Humanities and Social sciences, where Education, Ethics and Anthropology are well represented. As a non-for-profit Association pursuant to French Law of 1901, recognised as Promoting the Public interest, its unique Research Unit “Religion, Culture and Society” is fully recognised by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Inspired by a long Christian and Humanistic tradition, ICP values open-mindedness and dialogue across borders, as suggested by the University Motto: “An Open Mind to the World”. ICP welcomes all students and academics, whatever their nationality, culture, language and religion and puts an emphasison individual pedagogical guidance. Centrally located in the 6th district of Paris, between the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, ICP is built on the site of an old Carmelite convent from the 17th century. ICP is a place of serenity and history, a unique and positive environment conducive to study, research and campus life.
ICP belongs to the European Higher Education Area and delivers ECTS (European Credits Transfer System). ICP is also a major actor of the, global Catholic network of higher education. ICP prepares for obtaining State Degrees recognized at National and European level (Bachelor, Master and Doctorate Degrees), Canonical Diplomas as well as its own Diplomas. Part of ICP, the ILCF (Institute of French Language and Culture) offers recognised certifications. Faculties of ICP deliver Bachelor (3 years), Master (5 years) and Doctorate Degrees in three main complementary teaching and research areas :
- Humanities : Philosophy, French and International Literature, Past and Present Languages, European languages, Ancient Oriental Languages, History, History of Art, French as a Foreign Language, French Culture, Politics…
- Law, Social sciences and economics : Law, Economics, Sociology, Human Resources, Mediation and Negotiation…
- Theology, Religious Sciences & Canon Law : Canon Law, Moral Theology, Pastoral Catechesis, Theology of Arts, Liturgy, Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies, Exegesis, Christian Anthropology…
IFP Energies nouvelles
IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) is a major research and training player in the fields of energy, transport and the environment. From research to industry, technological innovation is central to all its activities.
Its areas of expertise include:
- climate, environment and circular economy,
- renewable energies,
- sustainable mobility,
- responsible oil and gas.
As part of the public-interest mission with which it has been tasked by the public authorities, IFPEN focuses on:
- providing solutions to take up the challenges facing society in terms of energy and the climate, promoting the transition towards sustainable mobility and the emergence of a more diversified energy mix;
- creating wealth and jobs by supporting French and European economic activity, and the competitiveness of related industrial sectors.
An integral part of IFPEN, its graduate engineering school – IFP School – prepares future generations to take up these challenges.
IFPEN has proven expertise across the entire value chain, from fundamental research to innovation. It is funded both by a state budget and by resources provided by industrial partners. The latter account for over 50% of IFPEN’s total budget, a configuration that is unique in France.
The aim of IFPEN’s R&I programs is to overcome existing scientific and technological challenges in order to develop innovations that can be used by industry.
IFPEN’s fundamental research program aims to create a library of knowledge essential for the development of innovations.
The scientific expertise of IFPEN’s researchers is internationally recognized and they are regularly consulted by the public authorities to provide their insight in their specific fields to inform the decision-making process.
Read moreIMT (Institut Mines-Télécom)
The number one group of engineering and management graduate schools in France, IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) is a public institution dedicated to higher education, research and innovation in engineering and digital technology. It provides the economy with 12.300 freshly-trained engineers, managers and doctors.
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IMT has also formed close ties with 12 partner institutions, known as affiliated schools.
4,100 degrees are awarded each year and 90 % of graduates go straight into permanent work contracts (figures excluding the affiliated schools).
IMT schools form a powerful group, complementing each other and working cohesively together. Their strength is founded on a shared vision to:
- train graduates for businesses,
- develop the economy and France’s territories,
- contribute to innovation and entrepreneurship.
These activities are rolled out in areas linked to the major digital, energy, industrial and educational transitions underway.
Partner-orientated research
The quality of IMT’s partner-orientated research is recognized by 2 Carnot Institute labels, (M.I.N.E.S and Carnot Télécom & société numérique) awarded in 2006 and renewed in 2011.
The research concerns projects that involve IMT research teams and its socioeconomic partners (businesses, associations, local authorities, etc.). This is a major focus of IMT’s Research and Innovation strategy.
Partner-orientated research takes many forms:
- Contractual research
- Collaborative research
- Technology transfer
IMT Nord Europe
IMT Nord Europe is one of the 8 leading engineering and management schools that make up the Institut Mines-Télécom. The strength of the group lies in the complementary nature of its schools and their cohesion, based on a common vision: training at the service of companies, economic and territorial development, contribution to innovation and entrepreneurship.
IMT Nord Europe is also a major player in research and innovation in the Hauts-de-France region: its 3 research centres are at the heart of ecological, digital and industrial transformation.
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